Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poewas an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 January 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
There is no beauty without some strangeness
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
Leave my loneliness unbroken
If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
No one should brave the underworld alone.